Figures of Speech

A rhetorical figure that intentionally deviates from the ordinary language.

• Sensory Images

• Figures of Speech

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A word/phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition for rhetorical or vivid effect.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

It is a comparison of two things using "like" & "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparison of two things without using the word like and as.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Giving human qualities to objects or animals.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

It is the repetition of beginning word sounds

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

• Assonance

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a word that imitates the sound it represents.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

It addresses someone absent, dead, or non-human as if that person or thing were present.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

It is when a part of something is used to refer to the whole.

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Synecdoche

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4